Pike v. Spartanburg Railway, Gas & Electric Co.
Pike v. Spartanburg Railway, Gas & Electric Co.
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
This is an appeal by- plaintiff from an order of Judge Watts, requiring plaintiff to make her complaint definite and certain, in accordance with the previous order of Judge Townsend. The defendant also appealed, but at the hearing abandoned the same. In the effort to comply with the order of Judge Townsend, plaintiff prepared and served an amended complaint. On defendant’s motion to require plaintiff to further amend her complaint in conformity with Judge Townsend’s order, Judge Watts held that the amended complaint conformed to Judge *410 Townsend’s order in every particular save one, which he specified, and ordered plaintiff to comply therein, and further allowed defendant twenty days in which to answer after service of the complaint, amended as directed. Plaintiff’s exceptions complaint of the order in both particulars.
The judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.
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- Syllabus
- 1. Amendment of Pleadings. — Order requiring plaintiff to amend her amended complaint so as to conform to order requiring more specific allegations, proper here. 2. Discretion. — Extension of Time to Answer is within discretion of Circuit Judge, and here properly exercised.